'All the children were homeschooled': Michigan AG, lawmakers call for home school accountability

[marmar]

(Detroit Free Press) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and a Democratic state lawmaker are calling for more state oversight into homeschooling following recent reports of child abuse where officials say homeschool helped conceal mistreatment by caregivers.

Michigan has virtually no requirements to make sure homeschooled children are really receiving an education. Advocates for the education method say parents should not have to be held accountable by the government for making decisions about their own children. But a case out of Clinton County announced Monday by Nessel highlights why some requirements should be in place, she said.

At school, officials can sometimes spot when a child faces abuse at home. In the Clinton County case, Nessel's office charged two couples — Jerry and Tamal Flore and Tammy and Joel Brown — in what is described as a conspiracy to financially profit from adopting nearly 30 children, some of whom they are accused of abusing. ..............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2023/12/06/michigan-ag-lawmakers-call-for-homeschool-oversight-amid-abuse-cases/71810884007/

[mopinko]

1. hard cases make bad laws? that family was not homeschooling.

and cases slip through the cracks of the school system all the time.

that said, i wd have welcomed a partnership w my local school. a lot of hs’s have them.
i wd have been thrilled to get what the catholic schools r entitled to- a book and a bus, as they say. i totally wd have welcomed text books. i knew they’d go eventually, and that the transition wd b hard. any common experience i cd give my kids, i wd.
private testing is spendy, and right thinking parents want to know their kids r doing ok.
sports teams, science & art fairs, field trips (i’m an awesome field trip mom.)
i wd have loved them all. in fact, i might have kept it up longer. i think my 2 younger kids were very badly served by the local school.

i hope they extend a carrot w that stick. anyone willing to put their lives on hold for their kids shd be treated as an ally.

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. Excuse me?

Advocates for the education method say parents should not have to be held accountable by the government for making decisions about their own children.

If the kids are being neglected or abused, the fuck they shouldn't! I don't care if you were the parent or not, if the kid is in a situation where they are being hurt, ignored, or tortured, the state needs to step in. As usual, these attempts at keeping 'parent's rights' are just another smokescreen to do whatever they want... which can include murder... with near impunity. Hell, some of those cases are a joke, as the 'parent' gets off with like 20 years with probation offered around 8 or so... disgusting. Such children had no chance at a life thanks to people like this, and they are not incarcerated forever? Yay American Justice!